UFO ROUNDUP

Volume 5
Number 41
October 12, 2000

Editor: Joseph Trainor

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CHEMTRAILS CAUSE WEIRD PHENOMENON IN MICHIGAN

A strange incident involving chemtrails and two
white helicopters occurred in Brighton, Michigan on
Sunday, October 8, 2000, around 8 a.m.

Commercial artist Michael reported, "My mother,
who lives on a lakefront property, looked out the large picture
window overlooking the lake. She noticed in the sky planes
making contrails into a huge checkerboard shape. She
had a disposable camera which she received free in the
mail and was able to take of the most incredible event she
had ever seen."

"It was a partly cloudy day, and the sky was very blue,
and within 15 minutes she said the sky had turned
pitch black. There in the photo you can see the reddish-
brown thick fog move across the lake in the same
window. She took (several) photos from the large
window and it was so black that the lake was not visible."

"Around 10 a.m., the smoke/fog cleared, and she saw two copters
painted white with no markings hovering over the lake and
unfortunately she does not have a photo of this. They left
soon, and (looking up) she noticed the huge Xs formed
from contrails."

(Editor's Note: United Nations helicopters are usually
painted white.)

After she phoned her son Michael, "I went over there
to visit and look at the photos and to help calm her down.
I'm an artist by trade, and I have a gift for seeing very
clear and have a keen eye for detail."

While examining his mother's photos, Michael
noticed that the camera had picked up a very strange
object in the sky above the lake.

"While looking at the photos, I noticed a small
white/blue light about 20 feet (6 meters) above tree level.
I looked close to see if it was some glitch or flash from the
camera, but it was not...I was totally in awe so I went to
take the photo and have it enlarged. What we got back
shocked me so much--that's why I'm writing now."

The blue/white UFO "was like one of those plasma
balls where you touch the glass globe and the lightning
inside responds. It's a very clear and sharp image of
blue lightning contoured into an egg shape. I can see the
streaks binding and forming the egg shape. I thought
maybe ball lightning, but what's strange about the image
is (that) I discovered that the egg shape is not formed by
the lightning but appears to be formed by the
surrounding atmosphere."

"This may sound strange but when you look close, the sky
is a darker shade outside the egg shape and within the egg
shape the sky is much lighter, and images such as the
trees also seem to bend as if putting a magnifying glass
on the photo."

"I examined it for three hours, trying to come up with
an answer. I have none!"

Brighton is on Interstate Highway I-96 about 30 miles
(48 kilometers) east of Detroit. (Email Form Report)

(Editor's Comment: Filaments of an electrical nature
have already been reported precipitating from the
chemtrails. The phenomenon at Brighton is clearly
electrical. Perhaps some physicist can explain what's
going on. Weather modification, perhaps?)

CHUPACABRA SPOTTED ON A ROOFTOP IN CHILE

"Janitor Jesus Barrientos is the latest victim of the
mythic Chupacabra. He was left shaking with fear and
his hair standing up after having seen the strange beast
up close, as he states, on the rooftop of the four-story
building where he works. The 42-year-old resident of
Iquique cannot be disabused of the notion that what he
saw was indeed the strange Chupacabra, although some
may not believe him."

"Still on the nervous side, he told La Cuarta (newspaper)
that 'around 10:30in the evening, he went up to the roof to
arrange some boxes. It was well-lit, between the
moonlight and the light coming from the Calle Tarapaca
(street). Then I turned halfway around and saw that there
was some kind of bird on top of the doorway.'"

"Barrientos thought at first it was a jote (a large bat
indigenous to northern Chile--J.T.) 'But when I tried to
shoo it away, because jotes leave their droppings on
the walls, I realized it was an animal with an
elongated face, bulging eyes, sharp teeth and makes
squealing sounds like a puppy,' he recalled."

"He then froze, unable to do anything. This allowed
him to get a better look at it."

"'It had long ears and was black in color, measuring
a meter (3 feet, 4 inches) long and had large wings like
those of a bat.'"

"He thought the creature was about to pounce on him,
but as he broke into a run, the creature spread its wings and
flew off over Iquique."

"'I don't know how, but three seconds later, I was in the
building's lobby. I told what had just happened to some
children who were outside playing ball and they ran away
in terror,' explained the frightened janitor."

"Although he acknowledged that it was the first time
he had seen the bloodthirsty Chupacabra up close, Jesus
Barrientos remarked that others in the northern city
claimed to have seen it standing in top of the dome
of the city's cathedral."

Iquique is a large city located about 150 kilometers
(90 miles) south of Chile's border with Peru. (See the
Chilean newspaper La Cuarta for October 8, 2000.
Muchas gracias a Scott Corrales, autor de los libros
Chupacabras and Other Mysteries y Forbidden
Mexico para eso articulo de diario.)

THREE UFOs CAVORT OVER WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

On Saturday, October 7, 2000, at 9 p.m.,
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Yost ""drove up on the hill above
our place in the trailer court" in Portersville,
Pennsylvania "to see if any thunderstorms were headed
in our direction from the north. I was outside our van,
checking the electrostatic meter I had made when my wife
called me back inside to see what she had been
observing through her binoculars."

""Using my binoculars, I was able to clearly
see a small but brilliant point of light which was flicking
about in an extremely unusual manner, changing color as
it did so. It would be crimson red in one spot, then
blink out only to re-appear in the same instant in
another but would now be brilliant green, or a silver
blue/white. I observed this one for a few minutes, then I
checked for a reference point of land so I could make
sure that its (the UFO's) movement was not caused by
my binoculars. I was able to put the tree line just
inside the bottom of the lens and still see the object.
It was definitely doing the moving as the tree line
remained perfectly still."

"Then I was able to see that there was not only one
but three or more of these 'objects' all doing the same
'dance in the sky.' I also noticed that whenever they
blinked out and re-appeared they would form a perfect
triangle. The size of the triangle was constantly
changing as they darted about."

The UFOs "remained in the same quadrant of the
sky--a couple of miles due west" of the hilltop.

"Many airplanes were also coming into and out of
Pittsburgh International Airport. One of their main flight
paths goes straight over the hill where we were, and I was
able to track the airplanes quite well with my binoculars."

All during the time of observation, the UFOs formed
triangular formations in the same quadrant of sky.

"We were able to view the objects doing their 'dance'
for 25 minutes, and then they suddenly disappeared."
(Many thanks to Alan Yost for this report.)

MYSTERIOUS BLUE METEOR SIGHTED IN MAINE

On Saturday, October 7, 2000, at 10 p.m.,
Jean C. and her daughter were driving on Interstate
Highway I-95 between Howland and Lincoln, Maine
when the daughter spotted something unusual in the
dark night sky.

"About 10 p.m., my daughter and I saw a
meteorite burn up in the atmosphere," Jean reported, "
"This meteorite had a long tail. We believe that it exploded
because there was a flash of blue, then it disappeared.
There were other people on the road at the time so it
must have been seen by more people than just us.
We were heading towards the Lincoln area in Maine."
(Email Form Report)

UFOs SIGHTED IN SOUTHERN ITALY AND SARDINIA

On Tuesday, September 26, 2000, "a strange light
was photographed hovering over Avellino," a city in
Italy's Campania province about 120 kilometers
(72 miles) east of Napoli (Naples). "Witnesses
noticed 'a rod of light illuminating the mountainside.'
The UFO moved sharply in a horizontal motion, then
straight up in a vertical motion before 'flying away at
a tremendous velocity.'" (See the Italian newspaper
Il Mattino for September 27, 2000.)

Four days earlier, on Friday, September 22, 2000,
at about 10 p.m., "several motorists driving up a
mountain near Bosa," a town on the Mediterranean
island of Sardinia located 100 kilometers (60 miles)
southeast of Sassari, "spotted an elongated object
(hovering) above the pass."

"The object seemed to be rotating slowly (on its
longitudinal axis--J.T.) and it changed colors while
emitting a very bright and intense light. People stopped
their cars, got out and observed the object for nearly
one hour. A few motorists with cameras took photos
of the OVNI (Italian acronym for UFO--J.T.)"
(See the newspaper L'Unione Sarda for September 25,
2000. Grazie a Edoardo Russo, Antonio Cuccu e
Gildo Persone di Centro Italiano di Studi Ufologici
per questi rapporti.)

DISCOVERY LAUNCH BESET BY TECHNICAL PROBLEMS

""The heralded 100th launch of the space shuttle
program was scrubbed Tuesday," October 10, 2000,
"by a human goof. Someone had left an 8-ounce
metallic pin in a perilous place--on an oxygen line
between the shuttle and its huge external fuel tank."

"Spotted during a final inspection, with the seven
astronauts strapped into the shuttle Discovery, the
extraneous part forced NASA to cancel the launch.
Engineers feared that the pin could ricochet between
the shuttle and the fuel tank, possibly detonating an
explosion."

"NASA spokesman Joel Wells said the part, used to
secure handrails and platforms for shuttle maintenance
crews, was left behind 'in a hard-to-reach location.'"

"It was found by 'the inspection team,' a crew that
inspects the entire shuttle assembly--the orbiter, its
booster rockets and the external fuel tank--three hours
before launch. The crew had been looking for ice
formed by gases released by the spacecraft on
the launch pad."

This was the latest in a series of delays that
have postponed the launch of Discovery, which was
scheduled to fly last week.

Discovery and its crew of seven astronauts had
been scheduled to lift off Thursday evening," October 5,
2000, "from Cape Canaveral on a mission to add two
segments to the International Space Station."

"NASA scrubbed the launch of Discovery for
at least 24 hours, citing concerns about the shuttle's
large external fuel tank...The space agency says
it was not sure whether a problem existed with
Discovery's tank, but film from the launch of space
shuttle Atlantis in September revealed that an
explosive bolt used to separate the tank from the
orbiter was protruding."

Bad weather over the weekend, and "gusty
wind at Cape Canaveral forced NASA to delay Monday
(October 9, 2000) night's launch of space shuttle
Discovery...The flight was already four days late
because of mechanical problems which were
resolved over the weekend."

"The wind limit (for shuttle launches) is 48 miles
per hour; (Monday's) gusts reached more than 51 miles
per hour, NASA spokesman Bruce Buckingham said."

"During the 11-day mission, the astronauts will add two
new segments to the International Space Station. Until
that is completed, no one can move in." (See the
Chicago Tribune for October 11, 2000, "8-ounce pin
causes expensive new delay for shuttle launch," page 3;
and USA Today for October 6, 2000, "NASA postpones
100th shuttle launch," page 4A, and for October 10, 2000,
"Wind delays shuttle again," page 3A.)

CHINESE SPACE AGENCY LAUNCHES MOON PROGRAM

"China's budding space program plans to explore
the moon for commercially-useful resources and hopes
to some day take part in an international expedition,
members of the Chinese space agency said
Wednesday," October 4, 2000.

"Although details are few, the experts made one
thing clear: China sees manned space flight as the key
to securing its international status and economic revival."

"'If China since the 1960s had not had the atomic
bomb and the hydrogen bomb, nor launched its own
satellites, China would not be regarded as an influential,
powerful country,' Luan Enjie," director of China's State
Aerospace Bureau, "told the audience of foreign
dignitaries and Chinese schoolchildren at the start of
the UN-declared World Space Week."

"Started in the 1970s, the Chinese space program
successfully built a spacecraft for manned exploration
putting the Shenzou (Chinese for Sacred Vessel--J.T.)
into orbit last November (1999)."

"China hopes to send astronauts aloft, joining the
United States and Russia as the only nations with
domestic manned space programs."

Previous Chinese "media reports indicated a
second test flight would come before the year's end and
a manned mission may soon follow. Luan revealed little
about a timetable, saying only that several missions
will follow 'successful flight of an unmanned
experimental spacecraft.'"

"But he was specific about the program's long-term
goals. 'We will conduct exploration of the moon and
actively join international activities for Mars exploration.'"

"China's manned space program, given the secret
designation Project 921, has gathered momentum in
recent years, getting help from more experienced
Russia and bigger budgets from a government eager
not to fall further behind the West." (Many thanks to
Steve Wilson for this report.)

GEOLOGISTS SAY "BIG WAVE" COULD HIT THE USA

"This is not science fiction. It could happen
tomorrow or several decades from now--an insignificant
piece of time, geologically speaking--but it will happen.
The volcano Cumbre Vieja (Spanish for Old Woman's Peak-
J.T.), located on the Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma,
is thoroughly unstable and could collapse at any moment."

La Palma is the largest of the Canary Islands, located
west of Morocco.

"The island will split in two. Half a trillion tons of rock
will fall into the sea within seconds and form a colossal
wave measuring some 560 meters )1,868 feet) in
height traveling westwards at a speed of 720 kilometers
per hour (432 miles per hour). A gigantic tsunami will
devastate the islands of the Caribbean and the Eastern
Seaboard of the USA. Water from the wave will
penetrate more than 20 kilometers (12 miles)
inland."

"This would seem to be the plot of a disaster
movie, but they are in fact the computations of of a
team of Swiss scientists concerning measurements
taken and then incorporated into an advanced geological
profiling program. The results have been published in
the Journal of Vulcanology and Geothermal Research."

"'It could happen at any time, within 10 years or
10 decades. But please note this: if I lived in Miami
or New York, and I heard that Cumbre Vieja was
erupting, I wouldn't listen to the news a second
longer,' Dr. Simon Bay of London's University College
told the BBC."

"Scientific fears are based not only on the
geophysical computations which indicate that the
current island of La Palma, which has only 706 square
kilometers of surface area and is 2,406 meters
(7,940 feet) in height, is in a precarious geotechnical
balance,, they are also concerned about a new
eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, which isn't
far-fetched considering that it has exploded a dozen
times in the last 100,000 years, according to Bay's
calculations, and the last eruption on La Palma
occurred in 1971."

"'This is a much more vivid danger than having
an asteroid fall. This could be a catastrophe not only
for the island's residents but for the people on the
other side of the ocean who have never heard of
La Palma,' Bay said." (See the Spanish newspaper
Sociedad for October 6, 2000, "Scientists say the
island of La Palma will collapse and devastate the
Caribbean." Muchas gracias a Scott Corrales
para eso articulo.)

(Editor's Comment: Remember all those strange
"Big Wave" dreams people were having, which have
been reported here in UFO Roundup? Maybe they're
picking up psychic emanations of this future disaster.
For more on "Big Wave" dreams, see this week's
feature story.)

READER FEEDBACK:

DUBYA'S NO SATANIST

Glen E. Zook of Texas writes, "The photograph of
Gov. George W. Bush on page 9 of 'The Globe' does
NOT show him making a pagan sign, etc. What he is
doing is making the 'Hooked Horns' sign of the University
of Texas. The team name of the University of Texas is
the Texas Longhorns (a breed of cattle--G.E.Z.) and the
mascot is a longhorn named 'Bevo.' This hand gesture is
made at football games, etc."

"I moved to Texas after I graduated from Georgia
Tech in Atlanta, Ga. However, I have lived in the state
for 33 years and have seen this gesture many, many
times."

ANN ARBOR UFO COULD HAVE BEEN A BLIMP

Greg Andrews of Michigan writes, "I'm going out on
a limb here, but I'll bet those people were looking at
one of the many sport blimps that show up to provide
aerial coverage of the University of Michigan football
games. Some of these blimps have impressive lights
on them for night advertising, which look really odd
if you see it at an angle or from a distance."
"I'm not saying that it wasn't something more exotic,
but it's a pretty good guess that it was a blimp."

from the UFO Files...

2060: SECOND NOAH!?

This week's article in the Journal of Vulcanology
and Geothermal Research has rekindled interest in
the recent spurt of "Big Wave" dreams experienced
by some of the psychics.

Since 1987, your editor has had six dreams about
a monstrous tidal wave hitting the eastern shores of the
USA. Some were truly frightening, but the most vivid,
most detailed and most memorable dream dealt with the
aftermath of the "Big Wave."

I had this dream in April of 1996. I dreamed I was sitting
at a desk in a darkened room. In front of me was a very
odd-looking desktop computer. I groped for the on-switch,
but I couldn't find it. Then I accidentally moved my hand across
the screen, and it came on. A curved keyboard automatically
came out of a panel of what I thought was the CPU.

Figuring to access AOL, I typed "Menu" and hit what I thought
was the Enter tab. The computer began beeping and making
weird geometric patterns onscreen. The keyboard went in and
out of its aperture like a cuckoo clock. I thought, I need some
technical assistance with this thing, and, waving my hand
in front of the screen, I shut it down and left the room.

I found myself in a darkened upstairs hallway. I groped for
a light switch, found it and flicked it. Nothing.

(Editor's Note: Apparently the computer had its own
built-in power pack.)

Making my way downstairs, I saw that the first floor
was a complete shambles. Overturned furniture, debris,
patches of silt and muck on the floor. An overwhelming
damp, dank scent like seawater.

I went outside. Instantly I recognized the neighborhood.
I was on the east side of Peck Street, in my childhood
hometown of Attleboro, Massachusetts, about midway
between North Main and Bank Streets. There was no
mistake. This was Peck Street, the same street I had
walked on my way to school for 12 years. Like Dickens,
I could walk it blindfolded.

But Peck Street had changed a bit. The Roman
Catholic and Episcopalian churches still stood sentinel
on each corner of Peck and North main. But they looked
like stone islands in a vast lake. The whole corner was
underwater. A similar "lake" occupied the wetlands
north of the street, running along Bank Street.

The Duffy-Poole Funeral Home, at the corner of
Peck and Danforth Streets, was gone, replaced by a
garden apartment complex with a first-floor cafe and
gift shop. Same story across the street, where the old
Victorian homes stood. Then I spotted the ranch house.
Different paint scheme but the same house, only now it
looked like one of the oldest homes on the street.

Now, I remember when that house was built. It was
back in 1957, when I was in the second grade. The
following spring, the owner planted maple saplings in
the yard. Today they're mature maples. But in my
dream, the remaining trees looked about a century old.
Meaning I was seeing Peck Street in about 2060 A.D.

I figured that out later, though. My initial reaction
was one of horrified shock. What happened to
Attleboro!?

The area looked as if it had been hit by a massive
tidal wave of hurricane. Flood damage was everywhere.
Shattered walls, overturned cars, downed trees, ponds
littered with debris. The earth was sodden underfoot as
I made my way across the lawn toward the sidewalk.
There was no sign of any other humans.

Where is everybody? I wondered.

Looking toward a downed maple tree, I saw what I at
first thought was a bundle of clothes in the water. Then I
realized it was a man. I plunged into the thigh-deep
water on the street and pulled him up onto the lawn.

I rolled him over. He was a man in his early twenties,
with a gold stud in each ear lobe and a forked beard
and a curious haircut--slight bangs with a curled ponytail.
Denim jacket and dark slacks. I put my hand on his
throat. No pulse. He was dead. Rigor had come and gone,
so I guess he was in the water for a day or two.

Just then, I heard a soft whirring noise. Looking up I
saw an unusual white craft flying from west to east at an
altitude of about 2,000 feet. I gaped in astonishment.
I don't believe it! A UFO!

The object stopped. Some kind of canopy slid open
and a man in black stood up. All at once, a light began
winking at me. I heard a sound like angry bees on my
left, and vertical fountains erupted in the water all
around me. He's shooting at me!

Grabbing a quick breath, I did a belly flop into
the water. Went under and stayed under, gripping sunken
rocks and debris to keep myself submerged. My lungs
began to burn, but I didn't dare surface. Then I
remembered the fallen maple tree just ahead. Doing a
tadpole crawl along the bottom, I reached the branches,
then pulled myself along into deeper water until I was close
to the trunk. My face poked out of the water, and I drank
in long breaths of air.

Peering through the leaves, I could see the unusual
aircraft fifty feet above. It was some kind of hybrid
airplane/hovercraft. The studdy white fuselage was
like an A-6 but with a huge, broad, bell-shaped
rotorfan underneath it. There was a conventional
empennage--upright tail and stabilizers, and thrust was
provided by two small turbofan engines on outrigger
pylons near the tail. On the tail I saw the black
wreathed globe symbol of the United Nations with a
logo underneath reading World Air Service.

It was a two-seater, side-by-side cockpit. The
bubble canopy was up. Both men wore black flight
suits with large sky-blue helmets with Polaroid sun
visors. One handled the controls; the other stood
upright, toting what looked like a bull[up-style
automatic weapon with a banana clip.

The World Air Service hovercraft drifted around
overhead for another five minutes. Its rotor raised
ripples on the pond, and I got a few mouthfuls of
brackish saltwater. Then the clear canopy descended, and
it resumed its eastward flight.

I gave it another five minutes and staggered out of the
street pond. They must have thought I was a looter, I
reflected, shivering as the wind began to pick up.

(Editor's Comment: Or perhaps the flying UN police
of 2060 don't bother to arrest and question suspects.
Perhaps they merely gun them down.)

Seeking shelter, I wandered through backyards.
Most of the doors I tried were locked. But then I got
lucky. The house I entered had severe flood damage
on the first floor, but the second-story bedrooms
were dry. I found a bedroom, doffed my soaked clothes,
wrung the water out of them with my bare hands, and
let them air-dry while I warmed myself beneath the
bed's blankets.

I must have dozed for awhile, because the next
thing I knew, a Pomeranian dog hopped onto the
bedspread and began barking. Sitting up, I ruffled
the fur on the back of his neck and asked, "Where
did you come from?"

Suddenly, I heard a woman's voice on the first floor.
"Honey, I think somebody's up there." Then a but
louder from the stairwell. "Hello? Who's there?"

And I woke up.

Reading about the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the
Canary Islands I wonder if I was given a glimpse of the
aftermath of that disaster. Attleboro is about 15 miles
north of Narragansett Bay, the nearest arm of the
Atlantic Ocean, so it's conceivable that the city might
fall within the flood zone.

Even if it does get a bit banged up, it's comforting
to know that Attleboro will still be there sixty years
from now. I wish I could say the same about the
Temple Mount. The way things are going, by the
year 2060, they're liable to be calling that place
Radioactive Crater Lake.

O JERUSALEM DEPT.: No jokes this week,
readers. The situation is too serious for that.
The death toll is already over one hundred, and
the wounded number in the thousands.

Today it's a platoon-level war, with mobs rioting
on the side. But it could escalate into heavy weapons
and big battalions any time now.

Here are a few things the Zionist sympathizers in
mass media had withheld from the USA public.

(1) On Sunday, October 8, thousands of Hasidic
Jews attacked an upscale restaurant in Tel Aviv,
setting it on fire and threatening to burn the Arab waiters alive.

(2) On Tuesday, October 10, Ehud Barak made
common cause with the Likud, inviting them to join a
coalition government. Yes, that's the same Likud whose
poster boy, Gen. Ariel Sharon, led his merry band of
goat molesters into the Haram as-Sharif September 28
and desecrated the Al-Aqsa mosque, thereby setting
off the current war of religion.

(3) Also on Tuesday, October 10, Jews firebombed
the Mahmoudin Mosque in Jaffa, presumably in retaliation
for the Muslims' destruction of Joseph's Tomb.

(4) Jews also firebombed the Hassan Ben Mosque.

While these incidents have not been mentioned on
American network TV, let me assure you, they are the
Number One topic of conversation at the bazaar in
Quetta, Pakistan.

Eleven weeks ago, Tackanash, Francisco Marto and
Jacinta Marto came to me in a dream and warned that
"a major war will soon break out in the Middle East."

Will these dream-predictions all come true? We'll
know for certain on November 8, 2000. Until then,
readers, keep hoping and praying and working for peace.

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